{"id":4203,"date":"2007-03-03T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-03T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/incident.net\/v9\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=4203"},"modified":"2020-06-06T07:39:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T05:39:15","slug":"monochrome-2007","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/incident.net\/?portfolio=monochrome-2007","title":{"rendered":"Monochrome (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Le monochrome a \u00e9t\u00e9 un moment charni\u00e8re dans l&rsquo;histoire de l&rsquo;art, d&rsquo;abord pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 sur le ton de l&rsquo;humour et de la caricature (1), puis pour revendiquer des intentions et concepts forts.<br>Quelles correspondances peut-il y avoir entre le monochrome et le num\u00e9rique (Internet, l&rsquo;informatique, l&rsquo;ordinateur, etc.)? Sont-ils compatibles? Il semble y avoir une telle opposition entre ces deux approches: l&rsquo;une simple (trop?) et l&rsquo;autre technologique (trop?).<br>Comme l&rsquo;a soutenu Carole Rinaldi: \u00ab Les monochromes ne sont pas r\u00e9ductibles \u00e0 une expression personnelle autour de la seule couleur \u2013 m\u00eame si l&rsquo;origine grecque du mot \u00ab monos \u00bb, seul et \u00ab khr\u00f4ma \u00bb, couleur, le laisse entendre \u2013 car nous ne sommes pas en l&rsquo;occurrence dans le domaine de la perception pure, mais dans celui de l&rsquo;abstraction des concepts. \u00bb (2)<br>\u00ab En peignant des monochromes, les artistes ont tent\u00e9 d&rsquo;approcher l&rsquo;infini par le vide. Un monochrome est un tout. Est-ce parce qu&rsquo;il ne montre aucune image qu&rsquo;il est absolument vide? Le seul monochrome qui soit vide ne peut \u00eatre que la toile du marchand, car elle est d\u00e9pourvue de concept, \u00e9tant en attente d&rsquo;un cr\u00e9ateur. \u00bb (3)<br>L&rsquo;informatique g\u00e9n\u00e8re des bugs, des erreurs, des crashs; est-ce un hasard si ces difficult\u00e9s se terminent souvent sur un aplat bleu (Klein?), avec comme seul sous-titre un message indiquant le num\u00e9ro de l&rsquo;erreur, comme lors d&rsquo;absence de signal vid\u00e9o? (4)<br>Le monochrome peut appara\u00eetre comme embl\u00e8me du tableau pur, uni et donc id\u00e9al, mais qu&rsquo;est-ce qui peut \u00eatre plus pur que la lumi\u00e8re? Et le codage informatique de cette m\u00eame lumi\u00e8re? (5)<br>Apr\u00e8s la toile, il y a l&rsquo;\u00e9cran: avant le d\u00e9marrage de l&rsquo;ordinateur, le monochrome noir est l\u00e0, qui nous regarde. Le netart a r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 des approches multim\u00e9dia tr\u00e8s vari\u00e9es et transversales; qu&rsquo;en est-il de l&rsquo;approche du genre \u00ab monochrome \u00bb? Le background d&rsquo;une page html d&rsquo;un parfait, lisse, impalpable, sans mati\u00e8re et infini aplat color\u00e9 est le point de d\u00e9part de toute page Web. En 1995, Holger Friese r\u00e9alisait \u00ab Unendlich, fast\u2026 \u00bb (6) un des premiers monochromes sur le Web, celui-ci jouait d\u00e9j\u00e0 sur les limites de la fen\u00eatre du navigateur: trop grand pour l&rsquo;appr\u00e9hender en une seule fois.<br>Yves Klein se pr\u00e9occupait surtout de la notion d&rsquo;immat\u00e9riel en art. Il ne travaillait pas seulement sur la couleur bleue, mais plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement sur le sens de l&rsquo;art et sur la philosophie appliqu\u00e9e \u00e0 la monochromie. Quoi de plus immat\u00e9riel que des donn\u00e9es informatiques? N&rsquo;avons-nous pas longtemps parl\u00e9 de r\u00e9alit\u00e9 virtuelle? Bient\u00f4t des monochromes virtuels, num\u00e9riques, partag\u00e9s, en r\u00e9seau? Quel sera le v\u00f4tre?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(1) L&rsquo;origine du monochrome est ext\u00e9rieure \u00e0 l&rsquo;art contemporain et provient du salon des Incoh\u00e9rents au XIX\u00e8me si\u00e8cle.<br>(2) Carole Rinaldi, \u00ab Le monochrome est-il sublime? \u00bb, Septembre 2005, M\u00e9moire Master II Recherche Sciences de l&rsquo;Art, p. 7.<br>(3) Idem, p. 94.<br>(4) Taper \u00ab blue screen \u00bb dans un moteur de recherche d&rsquo;images.<br>(5) Cf. les installations de James Turrell<br>(6) http:\/\/www.thing.at\/shows\/ende.html<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Monochromes paintings have been a keystone in the Art history. They were first introduced as a critical caricature, on a humoristic tone, but they soon became a way to state strong views and conceptual intentions. The Monochromes stand at the intersections between pure perception and abstract concepts. By painting monochromes, artists have tried to approach infinity through emptiness. One can ask if not showing any image equals to void\u2026 But isn&rsquo;t the only real void monochrome the bare canvas waiting for a concept, for a creator?<br>What are the links between \u00ab\u00a0Monochrome\u00a0\u00bb and the digital trio \u00ab\u00a0computer\/data processing\/internet\u00a0\u00bb? Are they compatible? At first, there seems to be an immense gap between them: one seems very simple, the other too technological.<br>We all experience the fact that a computer is a machine that crashes, bugs and produces errors. It often ends up as a blue screen. Sometimes the screen shows a number referring to the error, most of the time it remains completely blank. In a certain way, the blue screen of the computer, with its emanating light, is as ideal as a monochrome painting. Even turned off, deprived from any signal, the computer screen stares at us with all its blackness.<br>And on the internet, the monochrome is most coherent: this media and this genre both deal with the same immateriality, the same unseen, the same virtuality.<br>Take for instance the colour background of an Html page, as revealed in one of the first internet work: \u00ab\u00a0Unendlich, fast\u2026\u00a0\u00bb by artist Holger Friese in 1995: a perfect, smooth, impalpable, flat blue coloured page.<br>Yves Klein&rsquo;s main preoccupation was the idea of the immateriality in art. Working with the Klein blue was a way to question the meaning of art as a whole and to apply a philosophy to the Monochrome.<br>What is more immaterial than computer data? Didn&rsquo;t we speak about virtual reality for long enough?<br>The internet has the capacity to challenge and redefine the notion in a very creative way, still keeping the claim to strong concept and identity. The monochrome has now to integrate new components: time, space and geographical location, generation, sharing, participative construction, and randomness, to list only a few.<br>The network will bring a new life to the Monochrome. A virtual one. What is yours going to look like?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le monochrome a \u00e9t\u00e9 un moment charni\u00e8re dans l&rsquo;histoire de l&rsquo;art, d&rsquo;abord pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 sur le ton de l&rsquo;humour et de la caricature (1), puis pour revendiquer des intentions et concepts forts.Quelles correspondances peut-il y avoir entre le monochrome et le num\u00e9rique (Internet, l&rsquo;informatique, l&rsquo;ordinateur, etc.)? Sont-ils compatibles? 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